Now that school has started, Wife and have finally had to abandon the debauchery of summer. Boy and Girl spent the middle of summer break at their other parents' houses, and so we abandoned our aspirations of health to eat at restaurants, order pizzas, grill meat, and drink beer and/or rum every night of the week. It was a great time, but we are both ready to get back on track. We have a pretty good collection of recipes building up that have calorie counts included, and I've gotten back in the habit of crafting menus designed to get my family healthy food without working too hard or spending too much. Most of the recipes are designed with dinner in mind; while I was working nights I just packed sandwiches and left my wife to fend for herself during lunch. Since switching shifts, however, we've tried experimenting with more interesting food. For the first few weeks it was just soup--easy to make and easy to portion-control--but Wife gets bored easily. After a couple of casseroles, it was looking like time to retreat to the ease of sandwiches until I stumbled across a delicious looking savory turnover in the pages of Cooking Light.
